Epidemiology news from aidsmap

Many people with HIV in the United States
are still being diagnosed with HIV late, and therefore not getting the full therapeutic
and prevention benefits of starting antiretroviral therapy (ART) early,
according to the latest Vital Signs report from the ...

While several recent reports have shown that new HIV
diagnoses have been falling in UK gay men, what really matters is the actual
number of new HIV infections, regardless of whether people are diagnosed or
not. This is HIV ...

The San Francisco
Department of Public Health (DPH) has released its HIV Epidemiology Annual Report for
2016, showing that the
number of new infections continues to decline, with decreases seen across
demographic groups. Homeless people, however, have higher rates of ...

There is a lot we don’t know about trans women’s HIV
risk, why they are so vulnerable to HIV and who trans women are acquiring HIV from. A study presented
at last month’s 9th International AIDS Society Conference ...

Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), has reported
a steep drop in HIV diagnoses in gay and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in the
last year, and particularly since the beginning of 2017. ...

The world is on track to reach global targets for
reducing AIDS deaths and HIV treatment access by 2020, but some regions of the
world risk falling further behind due to lack of political commitment, UNAIDS
announced in the ...

Homeless veterans
in the United States have a significantly higher prevalence of infection with
HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) compared to
non-homeless veterans, investigators report in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Prevalence
of ...

The number of new HIV diagnoses in gay men attending five
key London clinics fell substantially during 2015 and 2016, Valerie Delpech of Public Health
England told the British HIV Association (BHIVA) conference in Liverpool yesterday.Epidemiological analysis shows ...

A report released on Tuesday by Health Protection Scotland
shows that 2016 saw the lowest number of people diagnosed with HIV within
Scotland since 2003.
Last year, 285 people were diagnosed with HIV in
Scotland. This contrasts with 6095 ...

A genetic analysis of
a large database of people with HIV in the UK in care shows that 18% of men with HIV who claim to be exclusively heterosexual
in fact belong to clusters of linked infections that ...

he Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, has said it is planning to increase its investments in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, while it disclosed that Nigeria accounts for 14 percent of global HIV infections daily.

Conflict in Ukraine has increased the risk of HIV outbreaks throughout the country as displaced HIV-infected people move from war-affected regions to areas with higher risk of transmission, according to analysis by scientists.

In our most recent modelling study, published this week in PLoS Medicine, we have attempted to look back on what the ART programme has achieved to date – and what could have been achieved. It’s too soon to say whether progress reducing AIDS deaths has stalled, but the early signs suggest that this may be the new reality in the post-2014 period.

The U.N. is voicing alarm over the spread of HIV in Egypt, where the number of new cases is growing by up to 40 percent a year, and where efforts to combat the epidemic are hampered by social stigma and a lack of funding to address the crisis.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has bluntly titled its new report Blind Spot and notes in its first sentence that focusing on boys and men may seem “counterintuitive” given the gender inequalities that often put girls and women at a disadvantage when it comes to infection and treatment. But data speak. O

According to the 2016 HIV Surveillance Annual Report, 2,279 people were newly diagnosed with HIV last year, down 8.6 percent from 2015. Since HIV reporting began in 2001, new HIV diagnoses among men who have sex with men (MSM) reached a statistically significant low in 2016, with 1,236 diagnoses compared to 1,450 in 2015 – a 14.8 percent decline.

Half of the Americans recently diagnosed with HIV had been living with the virus for at least three years without realizing it, missing out on opportunities for early treatment and in some cases spreading it to others, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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